LETTRISM AND INISM - Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi

 

Lettrism is an avant-garde artistic and literary movement that emerged in 1947 with the publication of Isidore Isou’s Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique by Gallimard.
In the 1970s, Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi joined the movement and actively participated in it. In 1980, he distanced himself from it and founded the International Novatrix Infinitesimal or INI or Inism at the Café de Flore in Paris.
The new movement quickly spread throughout Europe (particularly Spain and Italy) and the Americas (USA, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil). This work reproduces photographic testimonials and rare, unpublished documents; the text retraces the true history of Lettrism and Inism and the close relationship between Bertozzi and Isou.

Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi, a writer-traveler, artist, novelist, poet, playwright, translator, and university professor, is also the founding father of Inism. He was honored in France with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques at the rank of Officier and received the Médaille d’Honneur de la Ville de Puteaux. He directs the “Rose des vents” series for the publishing house l’Harmattan in Paris and is the founder and co-director of 
In the 1970s, Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi joined the movement and actively participated in it. In 1980, he distanced himself from it and founded the International Novatrix Infinitesimal or INI or Inism at the Café de Flore in Paris.